Ioanna-Vasiliki Pothitaki graduated from the Department of Economic and Regional Development and holds a Master Degree in urban and spatial planning from the University Paris 1. She is a Phd candidate at the same university. She has worked as a scientific advisor at the Ministry of tourism and previously as a scientific collaborator at the Athens Development Agency for a LIFE ENVIRONMENT PROJECT. She currently works as a scientific collaborator at the Greek ESPON Contact Point dealing mainly with financial management, project management, research and secretarial support of the ongoing projects. She has been involved in several European and national projects such as ESPON (INTERSTRAT, ESPONTrain, USESPON), NSRF 2007-2013 (SOCIAL EXCLUSION), conferences’ organisation and institution’s dissemination activities.

Spatial planning, territorial development and cohesion in Europe, place-based marketing, sustainable development, mega-events, RES and tourism are among her research interests. She is fluent in Greek, English and French and has a good knowledge of Spanish.

Ioanna Pothitaki is member of the International SDMed Association for cooperation on sustainable development in the Mediterraneanand member of the Hellenic Association of Regional Science Specialists.